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SUBMITTER: Wang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2630287 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wang Lijun L Guan Xiangying X Yin Haoyong H Moradian-Oldak Janet J Nancollas George H GH
The journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces 20080301 15
Under near-physiological pH, temperature, and ionic strength, amelogenin (Amel) accelerates hydroxyapatite (HAP) nucleation kinetics, decreasing the induction time in a concentration-dependent manner. Hierarchically organized apatite microstructures are achieved by self-assembly involving nucleated nanocrystallites and Amel oligomers and nanospheres at low supersaturations and protein concentrations in a slow and well-controlled constant composition (CC) system. The CC method allows the capture ...[more]